I am not as familiar with cura, but prusa slicer / super slicer have a tool cut any model along a plane into 2 pieces. That seems to be what you want.
If it takes unethical practices to provide for an animal, it’s unethical to have the animal.
That being said, supervised outside team seems like a reasonable choice.
I think it depends greatly on your preferred workflow and what you plan to model. Parametric drafting like fusion involves creating dimensioned and constrained sketches and manipulating them. Where direct modeling like blender or plasticity is more like painting in 3D
You wouldn’t create a figurine using parametric tools as all the fine detail would be impossible to constrain. At the same time a precise gear that needs to mesh would be difficult to model in a direct modeling tool as it’s difficult to make the precise teeth
I personally track it in a self hosted jellyseer instance, but I used to use trakt.tv
The Roth IRA is great advice. I think a 401k is good as long as you are maxing your company’s contribution. Any higher than that would be better invested in another account so you could use it for an emergency before retirement
Buttermilk always seems to have like a one week expiration, but always seems to be fine up to maybe 2 months surprisingly